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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
judgement_n	fear_n	zeal_n	zealous_a	13	3	9.1534	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10152	The righteous mans way Wherein are given certaine directions, how men may profitably meditate upon the Commandements of God: that so through such manner of meditation, the Lordes Commandements may finde place in mens hearts, to serve in them as guides unto all their actions and thoughts. Directions most needfull for these times, seeing most men laying the commandements of God aside, doe leade their lives in disobedience to Gods commandements; and this, not onely to the scandall of Christian religion, but also to the extreame hazard of their own salvation.	Proctor, Thomas, fl. 1621.	1621 (1621)	STC 20411; ESTC S110512	50,262	77

bonds because so long as your passions affections are not moved in you the kingdome of heaven is not in you with power to your salvation An other fallacy there is when some would move mens feare by their own zeale or earnestness in preaching of damnation damnatiō so putting more trust to prevaile more by their owne manner of preaching then all the power of God in his great works can prevaile But the faithfullest course is to open well unto people the fearefulness of any judgments already inflicted upon some and the fearfulness of that last judgement of eternall damnation trusting that by an apt opening unto the people the particulars of those judgements the judgements of the Lord will then worke the feare of God in their hearts And surely it is more honour to God when his owne work prevaile over men to beget a feare of him in their hearts then when mens feare is begotten in them by the earnestness or zeale onely of a preacher A third fallacy there is when some put trust in preaching the Lawe as if the word Lawe Lawe onely sounded out in their earnest manner should make men feare to breake the Lawe whereas it were better aptly to open unto them the manner of Gods Apparition when he gave the Lawe that as then so for ever upon the apt description the fearfull manner of Gods giving the Lawe may beget a feare of God in mens hearts and consequently a feare to breake his Lawe so given to men And truely it is a very great darkness yea also damnable which wil be found in men at the last day by their not being possessed with the Acts and Iudgements of God for them and through them fearing God but resting onely with a seeming feare brought on them by hearing some over-zealous preacher Zeale is good yea it must be when the people are dull and slowe of hearing and therefore I would not haue men thinke that I reprove all zealous preachers but I would haue men rather to know that I would not haue any to make a false ayme or end of their zeale They must not thinke to beare Men more downe with their zeale then all the power of God in his workes declared can doe for this is to the great dishonour of the Lord. To conclude Let no man hurt his owne soule by saying what should I fear God for any thing done by him to others heretofore for to feare God for the judgments inflicted upon others is the ready way to remove Gods judgments from your selfe And surely he that thus honoureth God by fearing him for that done by him to others shall never feele judgements but gentle corrections rather Therefore at any hand take heede of so evill a disposition as when you heare what God hath inflicted upon others you say What is that to me I am well enough I will goe on in my pleasure though it be sinfull Nay rather learne by this manner practise which I haue taught you to be able truely to say with the Prophet David Thy Iudgements have I laid before me My flesh trembleth for feare of thee and I am afraid of thy Iudgements For surely the Iudgements laid before us will beget feare in us and feare in us will incline us to the keeping of the Commandements Yea as I haue said before our heart will even delight in the escaping such Iudgements by the keeping of Gods Commandements Therefore apply your selfe hereunto as you tender your owne profit Yea when you heare the Comm●ndements receive them then as if you heard them out of the fietry flame Deut 3. 11. for so they were at first given and you● eye must by faith ascend to the first giving those thing which now you often reade or heare 5. Chap. A Fourth Motive or inducement which I would remēber unto you is The love of God To this end Deut. 11. 1 we read t●us Thou shalt love the Lord thy God an● shalt keepe that which he commanded to be kept that is his Ordinances and his Lawes and Commandements alway And ou● Lord saith Iohn 14 vers 15. and 23 If ye love me keepe my Commandements If any man love me he will keepe my worde he that loueth me not keepeth not my worde Love is the most assured bond of any other binding men faster to a keeping of Commandements then any other thing whatsoever can doe Love knowes no rewardes for disobedience but abideth faithfull unto that which is beloved therefore the Apostle Paul 1. Cor. 13 7 saith Love doth never fall away If any man therefore would be a constant observer of Gods Commandements let him then indeavour to attayne to Love God But how should a man Love God whom he never sawe I answer this may be though it is indeede difficult because this cannot be done without faith and every man attayneth not unto faith And indeed to love God Christ whom we haue not seene is reckoned for a speciall part of that wherein the Saincts excell others as the Apostle Peter 1. Pet. 1. 8. saith whom ye haue not seene and yet Love him in whom now though ye see him not yet doe ye beleeve and reioyce with ioy unspeakeable and glorious And yet though wee see not God nor Christ with our bodily eye yet we must haue a sight both of God and of Christ or els we can not love eyther of them but this sight in deede is the sight of the soule through faith Wee cannot possibly loue any thing whereof wee haue no knowledge neyther doe men now knowe God but thorowe faith therfore as our knowledge of God is now thorowe faith so also is our Loue of God through Faith Would you therefore attaine to Love God you must then first beleeve the report of these things whereby the Lord hath reveiled himselfe to his Church If you beleeve those things then is the eye of your soule opened and thenceforth you haue a soule-fight of God and of Christ because thorowe faith of the report you now haue knowledge of those Apparitions or Reveilings of God and of Christ which they haue made of themselves to the Church Wherefore present your selfe with those Declarations set them before your selfe in Meditation and then unlesse your heart be in you wholy unbeleeving you cannot but haue thenceforth a knowledge of God Accustome your selfe therfore to heare the Ministers of Gods Word accustome your selfe to beleeue them also in that they say out of the word of God accustome your selfe to heare the word of God in Scripture read unto you or if your selfe can reade then accustome your selfe to reade the Scriptures Accustome your selfe ever likewise to beleeue what you reade in the Scriptures If thus you do then by this means you shall present your selfe with these things in the Scriptures by which God and Christ haue made themselues both known and beloved of Men. And verily the next way to attaine to a loue of God is the presenting our soule and heart with these

of their family to consider what a thing it is to haue such a thing as that done in this worlde For if this they use themselves unto then as on the one hand this will cause the ancient works of God to be still in the memorie of Gods people so on the other hand the works will work from the heart first a Confession of the power of God and secondly an Awe an● thirdly an inclinatiō to keep his Cōmandements Feare not neither doubt the producing these effects if thus you use your selves to speak of the antient wonders done of God for assure your selves that these workes were done and appointed to be told unto the sonnes and sonnes sonnes purposely to produce these effects Neyther are the workes of God so slight Neither is the Ordināce of God concerning telling them in family after family so vaine as that the relation of such workes of God will be fruitlesse as concerning the appointed effects 4. Chap. THe third Motive or inducement which I would note unto you is the observation of the Mighty workes of God in his greate and fearefull Iudgements inflicted heretofore upon those who have been disobedient To this end Moses Deut. 11 2. saith Consider this day the chastisement of the Lord your God which he did in the mids of Egypt unto Pharaoh the King of Egypt and unto all his lande And what he did unto the hoste of the Egyptians unto their horses and to their charets when he caused the waters of the red sea to overflowe them as they pursued you the Lord destroyed them unto this day And what he did to Dathan and Ab●am the sonnes of Eliab when the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up their housholds and their tents and all their substance that they had in the mids of all Israell Therefore shall ye keepe all the Cōmandements which I command you this day And the Prophet David Psal. 119 30 saith Thy iudgements have I layd before me Againe verse 118 Thou hast troden downe all them that depart from thy Statutes Thou hast taken away all the wicked of the earth like dross therefore I love thy testimonies Againe verse 120. My flesh trembleth for ●eare of thee and I am afraid of thy Iudgments Lastly verse 115 Salvation is farr from the wicked because they seeke not thy Statutes By these scriptures it may appeare that it were an error of no small importance to conceive that a feare brought upon us by the judgements of God is not a filiall but rather a slavish feare therefore also if any should so perswade men I hope these scriptures may serve to convince such of false doctrine But now seeing we haue this testimony from Scripture that to consider Gods judgements even upon others is a Motive or Inducement to the keeping of the Commandements ought not wee so much the more diligently to set alwayes before the eye of our mynd those ancient fearefull Iudgements which God hath inflicted upon others Therefore also haue I chosen this motive among others as a speciall Motive or Inducement advising Men also to the making a very careful and customary use of the same Which that you may the more profitably also doe chuse out unto your self some convenient time wherein thinking with your self of some one or two of the special Iudgements of God you may withall say thus or to like effect with your selfe This was or seemes to me to be as if here at this present I should before mine eyes see this or this as the story relates unto you Thus if you doe this will then help your perceiving or discerning well of that which once was done and the discerning furthers much the working of that upō our hearts which is discerned But if hereunto you add further saying Had I been in his or their steads to whō this was done how had it been with me how fearful had been then my conditiō This would help to bring the feare of God upō your heart For you making their case your own supposing how it would be now with your self if now the like should befall your selfe the fearfulness of the judgement would so appeare unto you as that a feare of the Lord that did it would fall withall upon your hearte Now feare is such a passion or affection of the minde as which taking holde of the heart and spirit of a man it will incline the heart to a care to doe that for the not doing whereof such punishmēts ●s it now feareth hath fallen upon others Yea from feare ●prings also Delight for wee cōmonly delight in doing that ●y which we avoide or escape such Iudgements as which our heart now feareth God for Be carefull therefore that you learne not onely to say God is to be feared or wee must feare God but to feele the passion of feare of the Lord in your hearte For there is great hypocrisy lurking in a free confessiō whilst what we cōfesse should be done our selves never doe Therefore to be sure to season your heart of this passion of feare doe by the judgements of God inflicted upon others as I haue aboue instructed you But it may be some will say this is very dangerous for men for men thus supposing themselves as in their steads will be ready to be deluded with a fancy that the same is done now unto themselves in deede I answere I direct men but to apprehend what was done therefore they must not fancy that now it is done And if any be so foolish yet a good thing must not be left undone by the wise for the foolish use which some may make thereof Neither in deede hurt you your selfe eyther by supposing what you should see if here in this place before your owne eyes you should see such a fearefull judgement as that whereof you reade or by supposing your selfe as in their stead considering with your self if the like judgement should befall your selfe now at the present for the judgement its selfe is nothing hereby the neerer you but rather the further off from you because you thus indeavour to teach your heart to apprehend what was done many hundred yeares since unto others for which you now through faith of the report would feare God that did it Whilst therefore this so good an intent or end of your meditation is in your soule you haue the lesse need to feare any the like judgment to be inflicted now of God upon you Wherefore be not caried away by any mans perswasion from the practising of that which aboue I haue directed you unto But indeed the Devill by his instruments will he ready to make opposition here against this to the end that you may to your owne hurt rest still in a saying onely God must be feared or we must feare God without ever feeling in your hearte the passion its selfe of ●eare And in deed all the while that you but thus doe the Divill knowes that you are still his in his